CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. Childhood and Youth 1 II. Missionary Years 15 III. "Theobald Mathew, No. 1" 27 IV. The First Gleaning 38 V. Many Witnesses 51 VI. Men of the North and Others 67 VII. Father Mathew and O'Connell 83 VIII. Joys and Griefs 98 IX. The City of Dreadful Night 111 X. The Down Grade 128 XI. The Famine 141 XII. America 154 XIII. "Ever a Fighter" 168 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Father Mathew Frontispiece "I will be a Priest" to face p. 32 "Go To Your Other Priests" " 64 "Here Goes in the Name of God!" 96 "How Father Mathew stopped Her Majesty's Mails" 128 Father Mathew and the unwilling recruit " 160